Music App Test 6
Which of the following does NOT characterize the piano?
it is capable of only one dynamic level
Video games have:
long used source music
Which of the following is NOT a technical improvement to the nineteenth century piano?
A second keyboard was added
What is the form of Greig's Morning Mood?
A-B-A
What is the form of Tavener's Hymn to the Mother of God?
A-B-A
Which of the following American Composers was NOT greatly influenced by the philosophy of the Far East?
Aaron Copland
Which of the following American composers did NOT write musicals?
Aaron Copland
Composers influenced by gamelan music include:
All of the above
What nationality was Stephen Foster?
American
The Libera Me from Faure's Requiem features which vocal soloist?
Baritone
A special theater was built at _______ for the presentation of Wagner's music dramas:
Bayreuth
Which of the following is not composed by John Tavener?
Berlin Mass
Sonata V, from John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes is in __________ form
Binary
Which of the following composers is considered one of America's greatest poets as well?
Bob Dylan
Which of the following is not composed by Debussy?
Bolero
Which of the following was NOT a Russian composer?
Borodin
Nationalism is a characteristic of all of the following except:
Chopin's Sonatas
Brahms maintained a lifelong, close relationship with:
Clara Schumann
The Symbolist Poets were strongly influenced by the works of:
Edgar Allan Poe
Electric Counterpoint features the:
Electric guitar
Hector Berlioz was born and spent most of his career in:
France
What nationality was Claude Debussy?
French
Who dies at the end of Rigoletto?
Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter
The singing star Giuseppina Strepponi helped launch the career of:
Giuseppe Verdi
Which innovative composer constructed a scale of forty-three microtones to the octave and built instruments with this tuning?
Harry Partch
Which innovative composer first explored tone clusters at the piano?
Henry Cowell
Which of the following does NOT describe "At the sight of this" from Adam's Doctor Atomic?
It avoids dissonance
Which of the following is NOT true of Berstein's West Side Story?
It has a happy ending
Which of the following does NOT characterize neo-Romanticism?
It maintains Schoenberg's concept of atonality
Which of the following does NOT characterize the Imperial March?
It uses simple march harmonies
John Adam's opera Doctor Atomic is based on the life of:
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of a gamelan from:
Java
Which of the following composers invented the prepared piano?
John Cage
Which American composer became known as the "King of Ragtime"?
Joplin
In which genre was Schubert NOT indebted to classical traditions?
Lied
Which mass-media forum was launched in 1981?
MTV
Crumb's Caballito negro is included in a book of:
Madrigals
Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a unique style of blues primarily sung by males?
Mississippi Delta
Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?
New Orleans
The whole tone scale used by impressionist composers derived from:
Non-Western Music
Italian comic opera is called:
Opera Buffa
Which of the following operas is not by Puccini?
Pagliacci
Which of the following composers is NOT associated with spiritual minimalism?
Paul Lansky
John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes is a work for a:
Prepared piano
The leading composer of Italian opera in the Late-Romantic era was:
Puccini
Which of the following is an example of a rock musical?
Rent
Which of the following composers did NOT write operettas?
Richard Wagner
Louis Armstrong was also known as
Satchmo
Schubert and his friends Organized evening gatherings of artists, writers, and musicians called:
Schubertiads
Music that is performed on screen and is part of the drama itself is called:
Source music
The French movement in poetry that rebelled against traditional modes of expressionism is called:
Symbolism
Mallarme & Verlaine were:
Symbolist Poets
Which of the following distinguishes the Fisk Jubilee singers arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot from that of Harry T. Burleigh's?
The Fisk Jubilee singers perform a cappella
Berstein's West Side Story updates the feud of the Capulets and Montagues to a feud between?
The Jets and the Sharks
Tchaikovsky's fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is:
The Nutcracker
Which of the following is a musical by the British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber?
The Phantom of the Opera
In Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, who are the Valkyries?
The nine daughters of Wotan
Which of the following is NOT true of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique?
The program deals entirely with nature
Which of the following describes the accompaniment for Tavener's Hymn to the Mother of God?
There is no instrumental accompaniment
John Phillip Sousa conducted the:
U.S. Marine Band
Steve Reich was influenced by polyrhythms of:
West Africa
The Dies Irae is:
a chant from the Mass for the Dead
The Japanese shamisen is:
a plucked stringed instrument
John Phillip Sousa composed:
all of the above
The spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects qualities of which traditions?
all of the above
Which of the following are characteristics of Beijing Opera?
all of the above
Which of the following describes the activities of Harry T. Burleigh?
all of the above
An important American instrumental ensemble of the nineteenth century was the:
brass band
Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to:
break the color barrier by recording and performing with white musicians
The keyboard instrument featured in Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from the Nutcracker, is the:
celesta
Tan Dun's score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon features which Western solo instrument?
cello
Which of the following does NOT characterize the March to the Scaffold from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantasique?
dominance of the string instruments
Tavener's Hymn to the Mother of God is sung several times a year, most notably:
during Lent
Which of the following does not describe the career of Patrick S. Gilmore?
earned title as "March King"
How many movements are in Berlioz's symphonie fantasique?
five
Brahms wrote _______ symphonies
four
How many movements does a typical Romantic Symphony contain?
four
Which of the following does NOT characterize Electric Counterpoint?
goal-oriented harmony
Higdon chose the title blue cathedral as a tribute to:
her brother
Brahms composed his German Requiem after the death of:
his mother
Which of the following is NOT a true of New Orleans jazz?
it had no set forms or harmonic progressions
The favorite subjects of the Romantic poets were:
love, longing, nature
Which of the following does NOT characterize Tavener's Hymn to the Mother of God?
major and minor harmonic progressions
A song form in which the main melody is repeated for two or three stanzas but introduces new significantly varied material when the test requires it is called:
modified strophic
Approximately how many songs did Schubert compose?
more than 600
Wagner called his operas:
music dramas
Electronic music that relies on natural sounds is called:
musique concrete
In this post-minimalist style, John Adams combines minimalism with:
neo-Romanticism
The concept of a program overture had its origin in the:
opera overture
The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:
piano
What is Vernacular music?
popular songs sung in a country's native language
The ensemble that follows "La Donna e mobile" in Act III of Rigoletto is a:
quartet
Louis Armstrong's instrumental-like approach to singing is called
scat-singing
Which movement of a Romantic Symphony is most likely to be strongly rhythmic and dancelike?
scherzo
The mood at the end of Libera Me from Faure's Requiem is:
serene
Wager's total artwork, in which all the arts-music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle-are fused together is called:
the Gesamtkunstwerk
In Berlioz's symphonie Fantasique, what is the idee fixe?
the basic theme of the symphony, heard in every movement
The short, lyric piano piece is the instrumental equivalent of:
the song
Another name for the symphonic poem is:
tone poem
Billie Holiday's song Billie's Blues is in ______ form
twelve-bar blues